But there are several decks that play by their own rules: Ru Storm, Urzatron, etc.
Unless you're rich or have a financial death wish you'd best pick out an archetype or two to commit to. Storm and mono-red are quite cheap. Most of the cards I listed have some overlap between different decks. Good luck!
RG tron is more popular right now, but that's mostly because it's such a budget friendly deck. RG tron is very high variance in it's matchups, and all you do is goldfish every game. It's powerful, but incredibly linear. Certain matchups it just flat out will never win (namely, any combo deck) while other matchups it's very difficult for it to lose (namely tempo/control).
UW tron also has combo-wins with Gifts Ungiven // Unburial rites combo, plays control quite well, and also "combos" out simply by casting Emrakul.
As for other combo/control decks, Splinter Twin kind of counts, but it's easily hated, incredibly boring to play, and very very linear, which makes it vulnerable to hate and meta shifts.
The other combo-control deck I would suggest is Aggro Loam, which plays similar to a more skill-intensive Jund deck with the Seismic - Assault-Life from the Loam combo thrown in that can simply go over the top of a lot of decks. Assault loam also can be tuned against tron, combo, or aggro metas relatively easily.
Realistically, the only decks I would say have been established as true t1 decks since the inception of the format (post bans) are Jund, Affinity, and Tron Variants. All other decks have trended up or down, with certain strategies being much more popular when there was less hate (storm for example). I wouldn't write off a deck just because it's not "tier 1" per say such as mono blue Faeries.
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If shocks are reprinted in standard, their price is only going up or remaining the same (for at least the time they're in standard). Now is just as good a time as any to buy them.
Actually, I feel if shocks get a reprint in standard, they may initially spike, but then will drop significantly due to all the people cracking packs.
I'd also advise against "pimping". Just buy more cards so you don't have such a narrow field of choices. Plus "pimping" is tacky imo.
Edit: Collecting foils for better value is completely different.
LOL. I love me a pimp deck, but I only pimp in EDH. In actual competitive formats, you need to change up decks too often for pimping to make any sense unless you're made of money, plus foils can cause tournament issues that I'd just rather not have.
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As for commons/uncommons: Remand, Spell Snare, Lightning Bolt, Bloodbraid Elf, Path to Exile, Spell Pierce...
But there are several decks that play by their own rules: Ru Storm, Urzatron, etc.
Unless you're rich or have a financial death wish you'd best pick out an archetype or two to commit to. Storm and mono-red are quite cheap. Most of the cards I listed have some overlap between different decks. Good luck!
RG tron is more popular right now, but that's mostly because it's such a budget friendly deck. RG tron is very high variance in it's matchups, and all you do is goldfish every game. It's powerful, but incredibly linear. Certain matchups it just flat out will never win (namely, any combo deck) while other matchups it's very difficult for it to lose (namely tempo/control).
UW tron also has combo-wins with Gifts Ungiven // Unburial rites combo, plays control quite well, and also "combos" out simply by casting Emrakul.
As for other combo/control decks, Splinter Twin kind of counts, but it's easily hated, incredibly boring to play, and very very linear, which makes it vulnerable to hate and meta shifts.
The other combo-control deck I would suggest is Aggro Loam, which plays similar to a more skill-intensive Jund deck with the Seismic - Assault-Life from the Loam combo thrown in that can simply go over the top of a lot of decks. Assault loam also can be tuned against tron, combo, or aggro metas relatively easily.
Realistically, the only decks I would say have been established as true t1 decks since the inception of the format (post bans) are Jund, Affinity, and Tron Variants. All other decks have trended up or down, with certain strategies being much more popular when there was less hate (storm for example). I wouldn't write off a deck just because it's not "tier 1" per say such as mono blue Faeries.
Actually, I feel if shocks get a reprint in standard, they may initially spike, but then will drop significantly due to all the people cracking packs.
I vote for exarch-twin or patriot delver
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Edit: Collecting foils for better value is completely different.
LOL. I love me a pimp deck, but I only pimp in EDH. In actual competitive formats, you need to change up decks too often for pimping to make any sense unless you're made of money, plus foils can cause tournament issues that I'd just rather not have.
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